Cougar Helicopters

Cougar Helicopters Incorporated
IATA ICAO Callsign
- CHI COUGAR
Founded Halifax, Nova Scotia
Commenced operations 1987
Hubs St. John's, Newfoundland
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Destinations Hibernia GBS
White Rose oil field
Terra Nova
Parent company VIH Aviation Group
Headquarters St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Key people Ken Norie, President and CEO
Hank Williams, General Manager[1]
Website www.cougar.ca/

Cougar Helicopters (a VIH Aviation Group Company) is a St. John's based commercial helicopter company servicing offshore oil and gas fields off the coast of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Cougar has permanent facilities in St. John's and Halifax. The company is affiliated with Bristow Helicopters which has a financial stake in Cougar.[2][3]

Services

Sikorsky S-92 landing at Ilulissat Airport, Greenland.

Cougar Helicopters currently services platforms and ships located off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in the:

Fleet

Cougar Helicopter, St. Johns, NL

Cougar Helicopters operates a fleet of heavy helicopters:

Incidents and accidents

On 12 March 2009, Cougar Helicopters Flight 91, a Cougar Sikorsky S-92A helicopter carrying 18 passengers and crew en route to an oil platform off the coast of Newfoundland, ditched and sank in 178 metres of water. 17 of the 18 people on board died in the crash.[4][5]

References

  1. "Oil industry helicopter carrying 18 crashes into Atlantic Ocean". CBC News. 12 March 2009.
  2. http://www.bristowgroup.com
  3. http://www.cougar.ca, 9/4/2012 press release: Bristow to acquire assets and minority equity interest in Cougar Helicopters
  4. No sign of 16 missing after Canadian chopper crash (update 5). Reuters, 12 March 2009
  5. CADORS report for Cougar Helicopters (CHI91)
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